LAYER in a Sentence

Learn LAYER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

52 example sentences for LAYER, such as:

1. A fresh layer of snow covered the street.
2. This cake has a layer of fruit in the middle.
3. Teeth have a hard surface layer called enamel.
4. The body was hidden beneath a thin layer of soil.
5. Everything was covered with a fine layer of dust.

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 Meanings and Examples of LAYER
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layer
 n.  tier; a relatively thin sheet like expanse or region lying over or under another
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  And, worst of all, she had burned two blisters on her fingers helping Pittypat and Cookie make layer cakes for raffling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  She found Carey Ashburn on the bottom layer of wounded in an ox cart, barely alive from a bullet wound in his head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  And three desserts, so everyone might have his choice, chocolate layer cake, vanilla blanc mange and pound cake topped with sweet whipped cream.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  About the core of her being, a shell of hardness had formed and, little by little, layer by layer, the shell had thickened during the endless months.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  Peace had failed her and Ashley had failed her, both in the same day, and it was as if the last crevice in the shell had been sealed, the final layer hardened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  Beneath an inch of water was a layer of ice, so that as they wavered with their suit-cases they slid and almost fell.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  Beneath this atmospheric waving and curling, and partially beneath a thin layer of water, also, the whales were swimming.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
8  When Jurgis lifted up the mattress he discovered beneath it a layer of scurrying roaches, almost as badly frightened as himself.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
9  The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned to the depth of the hollow road.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
10  Towards the middle, at the point where it became level, where Delort's division had passed, the layer of corpses was thinner.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
11  The planet was, in fact, very near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted to it a horrible ruddy hue.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
12  The wall was a thin layer of plaster upheld by lathes and beams, and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and words to be clearly distinguished.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE
13  Each accursed race has deposited its layer, each suffering has dropped its stone there, each heart has contributed its pebble.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
14  The solitary window was so dirty that the light was hazy and uncertain, giving a dull grey tinge to everything, which was intensified by the thick layer of dust which coated the whole apartment.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
15  It was furred outside by a thick layer of dust, and damp and worms had eaten through the wood, so that a crop of livid fungi was growing on the inside of it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  They will press for international action to safeguard the ozone layer.
2  She carefully scraped away the top layer of paint.
3  Various ecological issues have come to the fore since the discovery of the hole in the Earth's ozone layer.
4  There is a layer of dust on the dressing-table.
5  The body was hidden beneath a thin layer of soil.
6  Everything was covered with a fine layer of dust.
7  A fresh layer of snow covered the street.
8  Global warming could be accelerated due to the thinning of the ozone layer.
9  The ozone layer surrounding the earth protects our skin from being hurt by the ultraviolet rays.
10  This cake has a layer of fruit in the middle.
11  Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
12  The baby whale develops a thick layer of blubber to protect it from the cold sea.
13  Teeth have a hard surface layer called enamel.
14  Depletion of the ozone layer leaves the earth's surface increasingly exposed to harmful radiation from the sun.
15  The layer of thick smoke now covering all of southern California, thousands of firefighters are still struggling to contain ten separate blazes.